"I think what he captured is what we all feel. That’s what movies engender, and that’s a movie star engenders in us. They do make us fall in love with them, by the very nature of the medium. It’s us gazing at them alone in a dark room. There’s a very intense, sexual, voyeuristic thing about the way we look at actors and actresses. So, to me that was not such a huge surprise. What was a surprise was how naked he was in admitting it. But all of his writing is like that, really. I had read everything up to the Nicole Kidman book, and when I read that book it wasn’t really a surprise, it was more like ‘Oh, finally someone has placed this emotion within a context, within a critical essay.’ And that was exciting. Anyone who reads David Thomson knows that he’s had a hard-on for Nicole Kidman for a long time."
